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Effect of disorder on charge-density wave and superconducting order in the half-filled attractive Hubbard model

C. Huscroft, R. T. Scalettar

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.55.1185 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The half-filled attractive Hubbard model exhibits a simultaneous charge-density wave and superconducting order in its ground state. In this paper we use approximation-free quantum Monte Carlo techniques to explore the effect of disorder in the site energies on this degeneracy. We find that superconducting order survives randomness out to a critical amount of disorder, but charge ordering is immediately destroyed. This settles the issue as to whether disordered site energies, which do not break time-reversal invariance, can destroy pairing correlations. We also locate the precise ratio of disorder to bandwidth required for the disorder-driven transition from the superconducting state. We explore the validity of a strong-coupling picture which maps the system onto a Heisenberg model in a random magnetic field.

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